Source: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net

The reporter best friend of the permanent A++ lister says she would have a lot of questions for the disgraced news anchor.

Umm, how about all the predators you have said nothing about even though you knew???

Gayle King

 A++ lister: Oprah Winfrey

Matt Lauer

Charlie Rose, Harvey Weinstein

Gayle King would have ‘lots of questions’ for Matt Lauer

CBS’ Gayle King, who recently made waves with her explosive R. Kelly interview, would have a lot to say if she landed an interview with disgraced former “Today” show star Matt Lauer.

“I would have lots of questions for Matt Lauer,” King told Page Six when we broached the subject on the red carpet before the Paley Center for Media’s “An Evening With ‘CBS This Morning’” event Thursday.

The 64-year-old did not expand on which questions she would ask.

Her new “CBS This Morning” co-hosts, Anthony Mason and Tony Dokoupil, both said they weren’t sure if they’d want to interview Lauer at all.- Source

I Took My Former Boss, Gayle King, To Lunch & We Talked Breakups, Career Goals, & Yes, Oprah 2020

Obviously with the reckoning happening in media and entertainment, we’re all talking about sexual harassment in the workplace. I know you and Harvey Weinstein used to be friendly. What was your reaction to the news about him?
“I do know Harvey and was friendly with him. He’d been on the show many times and invited me to lots of fun things. Listen, I thought and heard he was a bully about his movies, but I never knew about the kinds of things that came out. When they say it was an open secret and everybody knew, I wasn’t one of them, because I had never heard anything like that about him, ever. But I do worry now that everything is getting lumped into one category where we’re calling everyone a Harvey Weinstein. They’re both disgusting, but there is a difference between a guy who says inappropriate out of line things and someone who is a sexual predator. They are both wrong, but we need to be careful with that language, because there are fine lines.”

..more recently, she’s grieving a different kind of loss: her CBS This Morning co-host and friend, Charlie Rose. A few days after we sat down to lunch for this story, the Washington Post reported that the 75-year-old journalist had been accused by multiple women of sexual harassment; more allegations followed, and he was swiftly fired from both PBS and CBS. A week after a visibly shaken King said on air that she was “reeling,” I asked her over the phone how she’s feeling; neither of us knew this follow-up conversation would be just one day before the “sickening deja vu” she would experience when she learned Today Show host Matt Lauer had also been fired.
“I am still trying to process it all to be honest with you, because I think that the thing that made the show successful was the chemistry among the three of us, so I feel a tremendous sense of loss,” said King, adding that the show is only just now beginning to think about who Rose’s replacement might be. “I felt and still feel very close to Charlie Rose; you know that I was always Team Charlie Rose with my pom-poms high. I admired him greatly and really saw him as a friend and a partner. It’s extremely difficult to come to grips with the fact that someone that you cared about could potentially be capable of the things we read in the Washington Post. But as painful as that is, I’m still a woman, so I am glad that if there’s anything good that’s come out of this, it’s that women finally feel emboldened to speak up, and that they now have the language to do so.” – Source


Read more on these Tags: , , , ,